Askold Krushelnycky, a former Kyiv Post chief editor, served as the newspaper’s Washington, D.C. correspondent from May 2018 to January 2020, and still contributes articles and opinions. He has been a journalist for 40 years, mainly with British newspapers starting in 1978. He was an assistant foreign editor at The Sunday Times of London and became that newspaper’s South Asia correspondent, based in New Delhi, to cover India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. Between 1990-1998 he worked at The European newspaper where he became chief correspondent. During the 1990s, he reported in Europe on the fall of communism, political transformations and conflicts, including the Balkans. Between 1997 to 2011, he was based in Moscow, Kyiv and Prague. He served as chief editor of the Kyiv Post in 1998. He made frequent trips into Afghanistan during the 1980s accompanying Mujaheddin guerrillas fighting the Soviet invaders. He also covered stories in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. In 2006, his book “An Orange Revolution – A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History,” was published by Random House/Harvill Secker. He was born in London. His parents were World War II refugees from Ukraine. He received a bachelor’s degree in industrial chemistry. In 2011, he and his wife moved to Washington, D.C.
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